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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Hockey Club shooting to be most popular club on campus page 20 The quest for Olympic hockey glory pages 21-22 women's-only space I Opinions, page 3 Jungen exhibit at the VAG I Arts, page 18 2 FIRST PIQUE THE PEAK Volume 122 Issue 08 - Monday. February 27, 2006 THE PEAK Maggie Benston Centre 2901 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 www.peak.sfu.ca Production Room Phone 604.291.4560 Advertising Fax 604.291.4343 Copy Editor Mike Hingston [email protected] 604.291.4560 Production Editor Agnes Gulbinowicz [email protected] - 604.291.4560 News Editor Amanda McCuaig [email protected] - 604.291.3597 Associate News Editor Lien Yeung [email protected] - 604.291.3597 Features Editor Debby Reis [email protected] - 604.291.4560 Arts Editor Kevin Lalonde [email protected] - 604.291.4630 Sports Editor Jen Hardwick [email protected] • 604.291.4630 Opinions Editor Dock Currie [email protected] - 604.291.4560 THE PEAK Humour Editor Warren Haas [email protected] - 604.291.4560 With looks of awe and reverie, SFU intramural volleyball players watch Mr. Tall showing off his bumping skillz. Photo Editor Justin Mah [email protected] - 604.291.4560 thank you Business and Advertising Manager Larry Van Kampen In this issue... [email protected] - 604.291.3598 Ad Designer/Production Resource Amanda McCuaig [email protected] - 604.291.4560 Combating patriarchy through space Network Administrator Andrew Yang [email protected] - 604.291.4560 Raquel Park explains the importance of women's-only space in the Distribution and Archives Coordinator Sarah Caufield screw you opinions seemingly never-ending battle against overt patriarchy, the closure of [email protected] - 604.291.3598 Madge Hogart House, and its implications. By Raquel Park 3 Columnists New construction labours on Rehana Bacchus, Rob Taylor screw you to people who The new Arts and Social Science Buildings, outside the northeast area don't appreciate David news Associate Staff Contributors of the AQ, will be environmentally friendly, among other things. Read Hasselhoff. 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By Tom Peotto 14 screw you to Shawn Desman. I mean, really. Nike goes unwillingly artistic thank you to Masari. He's The Vancouver Art Gallery displays the work of Brian Jungen until April legit. arts 30, and Stefan Aleksander tells us why we all have to go. As if running screw you to five classes, shoes turned into art isn't enough, just listen to what this guy can do thank you to six classes, with some patio furniture and a little glue. screw you to Canadian By Stefan Aleksander men's hockey. Disgraceful, thank you to men's 19 ALL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE PEAK WILL APPEAR ON curling. Impressive, but no sports Hockey mania WWW.PEAK.SFU.CA one cares. It might be a surprise, but SFU does in fact have a hockey club. Find screw you to pirates, the out what they're doing to become the coolest club on campus. The Peak is published every Monday in each of the fall, spring, and sailor's enemy, By Daniel Fung summer semesters at Simon Fraser University. It strives to cover the thank you to sailors, 'tis humour 20 SFU community and issues relevant to students in a fair, responsible, an admirable lifestyle, & informative, and engaging manner. The Peak is a member of Canadian screw you to Federline, Crossword 13 University Press (CUP), a national cooperative of over 70 college and more university student newspapers. CUP policy is to oppose sexism, racism, yo. You shouldn't be Humour. 24 homophobia, and other oppressive prejudices. Subscriptions to The Peak cheating on Britney. Etc 26 are available at $56 per year. Subscription requests and payment should Jessica Simpson has no be addressed to the Business Manager. The Peak is located underneath Column .27 the Higher Grounds Cafe in MBC 2901. If you have a complaint about class, too. Last Word 28 something that appears in The Peak, you can write a letter to the editor thank you to Nick or contact the Editorial Appeals Committee. Letters to the editor must be Lachey for trying to get between 150-400 words and can be delivered to The Peak or emailed money from Jessica. Just, to [email protected]. Letters may be edited for length. The deadline is Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. Due to space restrictions, The Peak amazing. can not guarantee that all letters will be published. One letter per student screw you to the Emo style — traditionally a quasi-punk per week. The Peak reserves the right to edit all submissions according beautiful picture of to stylistic, grammatical, and legal guidelines. The Peak also reserves look of dark clothes, piercings, and dyed Jessica on the cover of the right to reprint submissions at any time, in both written and electronic hair — turned towards the indie fashion formats. ... whatever magazine that is. I guarantee you've of thrift-store clothing, small t-shirts with seen it. 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Why do you think the Canadian Olympic The poetics of [our] space men's hockey team got knocked out? I was quoted in a rather decontex- happens in the public forum, but and exercise agency. While there are tualised statement in the February in the private sphere as well. Living undoubtedly issues of race and class 13 edition, in an article discussing in residence is one place where this at work, women living together are Nigel Wakita the fate of Madge Hogarth House is made obvious. In co-ed dorms, more "equals" than women and men His inner child spat up ["Dorms too expensive to fix," Febru• as is reflective of society in general, living together (as is the nature of pa• and cried on my plane ary 13] as saying that "there was more women and men are often in com• triarchy). 1 am by no means arguing competition among women in other petition for space to voice opinions. that segregation of the sexes should I think there was a lot of pres• dorms." This statement needs to be Women's voices are heard less fre• always occur, but that there needs sure on them to win. I think it clarified. quently, and the need to be validated to be an alternate forum for those has a lot to do with the diferent While women's voices are increas• by the more powerful group (men) is women who choose to live in this ice size — But that shouldn't ingly heard more clearly thanks to the urgent for many women. This leads to circumstance. Women living together really matter because they've work of many devoted feminists in a form of "competition" in which the can support each other in addressing won on it before. the fight against patriarchy, patriar• less-powerful group (women) may or their own oppression on a day-to-day chy is by no means gone. We live in an may not be heard by the dominant basis. oppressive patriarchal society that is and have to work for their own space. This same argument applies to Tom Kineshanko built on hierarchies that oppress and Women's-only spaces have worked the existence of the Women's Centre Wore a captain's hat rob those who are not the dominant to combat this, giving women a on campus. While it is of course im• until it flew away group of their voice. This not only place to exert their own autonomy portant for there to be male allies in the fight against patriarchy, power Chemistry.